Why is it always fucking gastro? Who sends their kid to daycare with Gastro?!
This is the 3rd time in 8 months.
parents who are scared of losing their precarious jobs
if workers had more rights they could make better decisions
I know that doesn’t help you today, so hugs
Don’t hug too tightly, you might regret the outcome.
Nighttime Musings - Mickey McPußson
- Mra-eow?
- Yow-eeeooowww!
- Brrrrii?
How does one say ß?
It’s just pronounced like "ss’ double S sound.
Eg. Groß - pronounced “grohss” - meaning: large/big
Or Fußball - “fooss-ball”
It’s called an Eszett if you want to look it up. Also of possible interest: Eth, Aesc, Wynn, and Thorn. Oh, and long S.
We need more of these. We need one for “ation” and ‘ing’. Maybe one for ‘con’. Back when I learned shorthand, the ‘con’ symbol was seriously the most useful with ‘ation’ the next runner up. The zeugma just doesn’t work nowadays for ‘ng’. No I don’t know the shorthand for ‘dinosaur’.
Technically a different thing. ‘Defunct’ single letter forms rather than abbreviation marks. Those are a whole bucket of mackerel that does my head in any time I need to attempt reading them. Never tried shorthand 🦕
TIL the word zeugma, thank you 👌
Comes in very handy for scrabble. It’s the z in Menzies (which is pronounced ‘mingis’) and represents the ng sound. Written it’s a z with a long tail like a ‘g’. Also features in the surname Dalziel (pronounced ‘dee ell’ with the ng bit being silent).
Long ago I came to the conclusion that the Scots and the Irish can’t spell. So they make up weird spellings to piss off the English. Which strategy has proven to be very successful. Not that the English can’t do weird spellings too, they can, but the Scots are a whole nother ballgame.
I understand it all boils down to a basically celtic pronunciation, but written down by Norman French speakers using a very different alphabet which was not designed for the purpose.
This is my favourite place on the internet ❤️
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Back to work today. Poop. Guess the Void feels the same way.
A work of art
my boys are angry they are on a diet, they decided to trash the bathroom where their trays are 🐈⬛🐈⬛😡
Awake at 5am. I hate non daylight savings.
Also it’s autism acceptance month. Seeing lots of promotion of it at work but no actual discussion of how they actually do anything positive to help people with ASD. Nor the fact that many employees hide it because they don’t want to become a target / be put in the spotlight. It’s also ironic that return to office is pushing ahead, when people with ASD often find corporate offices a sensory hell. (Apart from other issues like dealing with commutes etc)
Oh god I hope nobody tells all the big companies about this. It’ll become pride month V2
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Not dissing pride or pride month here, I just don’t like when companies take over events and social causes for the sake of trying to squeeze a few more bucks out of people
This is perfect cat cuddle weather.
Now, to get the cat to participate is another story.
I really want a kitty :/
Best decision I ever made honestly. I don’t know how I lived before having Gibson.
I live alone and have spent long stretches not dating so having a little semi feral companion makes life a lot more fun.
Mum always had cats while I was growing up, and usually at least 1 dog as well so I’ve always really liked the cheeky buggers. Obviously I haven’t been able to have cats or pets at all in the system, but once I move out I’m going to get a cat the moment I can
I’ve never had a pet before, so this has been a really different experience. I didn’t know what to expect, but this is a million times better than what I thought it was.
Twice in 5 minutes my dog’s arsehole got too close to my property. First, he sat on my pen. Second, he back his arse onto my drink bottle lid. 😡
this is why I have very fluffy cats
no arsehole drama
So many buttholes presented to the face though. Even if they are fluffy buttholes
You’re lucky your belongings don’t get violated like mine.
Ted used to hump everything
I am in the middle of screening papers for a systematic review. 1762 down, 1438 to go🙃
Hope you’ve got good eye drops. ✨
Absolutely not jealous
If anyone was wanting to try period undies but cost was a concern, a particular print of a particular cut is currently $7 at Kmart.
The sizes are a little limited and I can’t say I’m a fan of flowers. But that’s very close to half price compared to the next option up.
Heh. Clueless me read “period undies” as in “period bonnet” or general “period clothes”. I wasn’t aware of period undies. Are they a new thing?
I had to check, apparently they came about in 2013?
Yikes, apparently the Thinx brand had/have ‘forever chemicals’. That’s not very eco friendly of them…
Watching SiteInspections YT again.
I can’t help wondering how many dangerous buildings are out there without the owners knowing
The thing I have learned from that channel is that very few builders know how to do a box gutter.
And rain heads.
Wtf are building inspectors even doing though? The number of approved busted or wrong spec houses is scary.
Do your best and silicon the rest….
Who
Master builder who does private building inspections, he has a YT channel.
It’s really put me off buying anything newer than 20 years old.
And has made me look at the housing built in the 60s with new admiration, might be fuckin’ Melton but those houses are made well. Made with real bricks and roofs that don’t leak!!
I think our house was built in the 50s with extensions added in the 80s (though I’m not positive on that). I’m sure there’s probably a term for the sort of style, but it’s basically a wooden house on stilts. There’s been a few issues, especially with leaky roofs, but usually it comes down to something breaking 2 years ago, the dodgy tradies the department hire coming out to fix it and doing a really bad.job, and then their half arsed fix falling apart as soon as there’s a bit of rain
Hey Melbourne drivers, the rain falling doesn’t mean you turn off your brain.
If they knew how to read I’m sure they’d be very offended!
They are reading this now.
Witnessed a massive emotional support ute nearly rear end a tiny af Kia, in heavy rain tonight. The type of heavy rain where nobody who is sensible would dare to do more than 25 in a 60 zone.
I just want to say the doritos chaos cajun chicken ‘street art’ chips aren’t chaotic, cajun or chicken and it’s not a street it’s a bag of chips.
they’re making things up
Hahaha. This reminds me of my man when I buy him “chilli” snacks. The disappointment is real.
Very real. Unless said snack is from Korea I tend to disbelieve anything that claims to be hot.
I just tried cucumber flavour chips. They were odd. Not bad, just very not typical.
I still haven’t gone back looking for the ginger ninja again, and may not have the energy to. I’m in a lot of pain, fighting to manage Melbcat’s fiddly health, and facing fresh stressors with the cooked arseholes of my neighbourhood.
Edit: Guilt got to me. I went to check while Moobeans was sleeping, minding the crazies, and actually saw him. Unfortunately he was hanging out firmly on private property. I circled the block but those orange buns were planted in place and I refuse to get done for trespassing. So… Can’t take him to the vet for the messed up eyes if he won’t come out :/
I got home and Melbcat was awake, crying because I’d left. We’re back on the bed now.
Hugs for being such a kind loving person to cats. Is orange cat someone’s pet?
I just hate seeing animals be neglected or suffer. I’m really not sure if he’s someone’s pet or a stray, didn’t want to get closer or risk touching him to see if there was a collar and also didn’t have time to stop that one day.
The only times I’ve ever seen him were around a very specific spot on a particular street or very rarely walking past my unit in the past. So if he’s a pet he’s allowed to wander.
Are there any local rescuers that could help out?
That would require using Facebook/interacting with random strangers and it’s unfortunately something I’m hesitant to do. I’ll just have to do the occasional swing by when and if I’m able
I just got a credit for an NBN outage…I would never have expected that.
From your ISP or the NBN themselves? I always thought the NBN took the we don’t owe you fucking shit now fuck off and go enjoy your shit internet, peasant. approach to customer service
Yeah, ISP. But this is the first credit they’ve given me, and I’ve been with them for about 15 years I’d say.
Looks like I will get even more opportunity to play Jr Network engineer next month. I’m going to run ethernet into my rooms. I’m not at all a professional and don’t want to deal with cable terminating or actually wiring things, so the current plan is to take a cable out the back of the router in the lounge room and feed it through a passthrough style wall plate, take it into an AP in room 2, then feed into a switch, then finally take another cable out of that through another passthrough wall plate and into a final wall plate in room 1. Not ideal, and I’m a bit worried about introducing latency, but I’m pretty sure that’s the best option I’ve got for my skill level and what I’m allowed to do to the house. I sprung for gigabit cabling and equipment though, even though it’s overkill. Partly in the hopes that it might alleviate some of the latency, but also partly because everything’s going to stay here after I move, and it’ll probably be a whole century before anybody touches the cabling again lmao
Latency wont be noticable. I havent checked recently, but running ethernet cables behind walls requires an electrician. Thats obviously stupid though, so go for it. Just run the ethernet as far away from electric cables as possible.
Terminating cables isnt that hard, and the end result will be a bit nicer to look at.
When you say passthrough wall plate, are you talking about: https://www.cablechick.com.au/cables/cat6-rj45-keystone-coupler-female-to-female.html If you dont want to terminate, but still want a nice look those are very easy to use.
Oh that’s a relief. Yeah, it is still illegal to run any sort of wiring yourself, but it seems to be pretty unknown. We’re actually going for an even easier option than running it through walls, and running it under the house instead.
Yeah that’s pretty much exactly what I’m talking about. They seem like the easiest and neatest option
I ran my first run that way as well, under the house. Still illegal, but you can just claim an electrician did it and you dont know their name. The downside of those wall sockets is you have to drill a fairly large hole to get the RJ45 through, and in my case, it was a fairly long hole as well. Good luck!
